Well, that’s a wrap. It looks like heart disease and stroke aren’t just modern phenomena but instead have been around a long time. Like a really long time. CT scans of 237 adult mummies found evidence ...

Decades before Darwin, there was a debate over transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues at the French natural history museum were on opposite sides of issue. They hoped to ...

Thomas Pettigrew, a nineteenth-century surgeon and antiquarian, threw parties in London at which he unwrapped ancient Egyptian mummies for his guests’ titillation. Modern scanning technologies mean ...

Paul C. Sereno is President of the Scitopia Foundation, a 501c3 organization dedicated to science education in out-of-school time, with operations and a founding facility in planning in Chicago ...